Every now and then something happens that helps shake people back into reality regarding nutrition that will have a far-reaching impact on the positive health message we are promoting for many years to come. In November 2011, one such event happened in Iowa City, Iowa that will not soon be forgotten for the power diet can have over seemingly insurmountable diseases. It was during the TEDx Iowa City lecture series that an unassuming medical doctor gave an excellent presentation called “Minding Your Mitochondria” that has quickly become a viral YouTube sensation garnering over a quarter million views in less than two months–and the views just keep adding up as this video has been reposted in the social networking web sites and on health blogs alike! Her name is Dr. Terry Wahls and in 2000 she was diagnosed with progressive multiple sclerosis (MS) that forced her into a wheelchair with no real hope for the future she had dreamed of having with a career in the medical profession. But even as her health was declining, Dr. Wahls poured her energy into researching what she could do to beat her MS. She discovered something truly remarkable about the Paleo diet that led her to begin experiencing some amazingly extraordinary results that no drug or conventional MS therapy was able to deliver.

In Episode 533 of “The Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb Show with Jimmy Moore,” we get to hear from this professor of medicine and clinical researcher who survived progressive multiple sclerosis (MS) through therapeutic use of the Paleo diet. Today, while she’s still not 100% better from her debilitating disease, Dr. Wahls engages in regular bicycle rides and leads an active and healthy life. She outlined much of what she has learned about the relationship between the right kind of diet and disease control in her book Minding Your Mitochondria: How I overcame secondary progressive multiple sclerosis (MS) and got out of my wheelchair and she is currently seeking a publisher in 2012 to help spread her message to an even wider audience in her follow-up book tentatively-titled Up From The Chair: Defeating Progressive MS Without Drugs. With everything Dr. Wahls has been able to overcome in her life since that fateful MS diagnosis in 2000 left her seemingly hopeless, it’s unimaginable that anything could stand the way of her achieving whatever it is she desires in her life! This is truly one of the most extraordinary and inspiring stories of health triumph you will ever hear and I am privileged to bring her story to you today.

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I have seen Dr. Wahl’s TED talk, and it was quite impressive. I may get a chance to listen to this podcast later today. But meanwhile, I have a question for Dr. Wahl.

One of the things that I have read is that a subclinical B12 deficiency can have symptoms that closely mimic MS, so closely that it is suspected that some cases of MS are actually a B12 deficiency. The diet she described in the TED talk would be very likely to fix that, and the fact that she changed a bunch of different things all at the same time might completely obscure what the real problem actually was. So, the question is: “Are you 100% sure that your MS was not just a B12 deficiency, and, if so, what makes you sure?”

One reason for asking is that I know of one person with MS who has followed a low-carb diet (with various teaks) for years, and her MS just keeps getting worse.